In The News
Tossing Out the Diet and Embracing the Fat nytimes.com
ASMBS: Gastric Bypass Linked to Abnormal Glucose Tolerance "The hyperglycemic cohort was characterized by a rapid rise to high sugar levels," said Dr. Roslin. "The fact that most of these patients had normal fasting glucose means we need to be very careful of what we call cure or control of diabetes." medpagetoday.com
'Jumping Gene' Diminishes The Effect Of New Type 2 Diabetes Risk Gene sciencedaily.com
Can't Stop Eating? For Some People, Obesity Is Not a Simple Failure of Self-Control. washingtonpost.com
Why the Obesity Epidemic is NOT about health cnow.org
Fat celebrities a danger to our health? Come off it guardian.co.uk
Segway helps disabled man more than wheelchair sfgate
Call for Submissions
Weighty Proposition: Films about Fatness, Bodies and Food
Filmmakers and Video Artists are invited to submit films of any length to be screened as part of “Weighty Proposition: Films about Fatness, Bodies and Food.” What is it about a fat body that is scary, beautiful, bold, invisible, revolutionary, obscene? Why do our bodies become sites for debate, confusion, angst and exaltation? How do we come to our individual and cultural understanding of that universal question: Do you eat to live, or live to eat? We are looking for films that document fat positive movement building, that challenge our conceptions of fatness, that create new paradigms for beauty, that consider relationships between size, race, class and gender, that explore food and consumption, and that (most of all) express something fresh and new about fatness, bodies, and food.
Films will be juried by the film series coordinator, Sara Zia Ebrahimi, and filmmaker Naima Lowe. Films not selected for the screening may be considered for future screenings throughout the year.
Please fill out the submission form and send a DVD to: The Flickering Light Film Series, 409 E Pleasant Street, Philadelphia PA 19119, USA and arrive by August 1, 2009.
Evolutionary Speculation About Tuberculosis and the Metabolic and Inflammatory Processes of Obesity This Commentary explores the possibility that the tuberculosis epidemic during previous centuries generated selective pressures that intensified the metabolic syndrome and the inflammatory processes now associated with obesity. These proinflammatory defenses (with immune systems that are especially robust and more easily triggered) in partnership with the metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance, dyslipidemias, and hypertension),1 may have provided an advantage during the tuberculosis pandemic when food availability was limited and average life span was short. Currently, in developed countries, tuberculosis is relatively uncommon, food is abundant, and life expectancy beyond the reproductive years is substantial; the evolutionarily enhanced immune and metabolic elements now act possibly to intensify the pathological consequences of obesity. jama.ama-assn.org
Chubby people live longest: Japan study yahoo.com
Obesity scientists share prize 'For those people who are beset with the problem of obesity, this is a most important discovery,' Yang Chen-ning, a professor and chairman of the Shaw Prize board, told reporters in Hong Kong. 'We all know that there is a tendency for relatives of obese persons to blame the person for lack of willpower. This discovery already shows that it is not a matter of willpower that is at the root of the problem of obesity, it is in fact a chemical process.' straitstimes.com
IUPUI study downplays link between fast food, fat kids indystar.com
Mother’s Fight Against Junk Food Puts a School on Edge nytimes.com
Discovery Of Association Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea And Weight Gain "OSA is a disorder characterized by decreases or cessation of breathing during sleep. Obesity is a known risk factor for the disorder; however, it is hypothesized that the effects of OSA itself may predispose patients to weight gain." medicalnewstoday.com
On Beth Ditto, "Promoting" Obesity & Fat Shame jezebel.com
Hormone from Fat Cells Could Fight Breast Cancer insciences.org
Bingeing on Celebrity Weight Battles lots of quotes from the fatosphere. nytimes.com
Trigger warning. Anti-Obesity Activist MeMe Roth Compares Eating To Rape jezebel.com
Is everyone who's obese actually unhealthy? Fatties with heads (back of their heads but heads!) included. calgaryherald.com
How 'fat chick' furore made adman think smh.com.au
The Eye of the Beholder The Jewish Daily forward.com
Striking a Pose for Girth nytimes.com
Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved nytimes.com
The Best Diet Is No Diet: Fat Acceptance Authors Weigh In blog.newsweek.com
A Supreme Court Justice Can be Fat and Fit huffingtonpost.com
John Goodman Tries Beckett nytimes.com
7 Ways to Celebrate No Diet Day myfoxmemphis.com
Even Modest Exercise Can Reduce Negative Effects Of Belly Fat sciencedaily.com
Fat will be lifesaver if pioneering stem cell therapy can beat MS news.scotsman.com
Robert B. Fogel, M.D., Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital Engaged in scientific misconduct
The US Public Health Service found that Respondent engaged in scientific misconduct by falsifying and fabricating baseline data from a study
of sleep apnea in severely obese patients published in the following paper: Fogel, R.B., Malhotra, A., Dalagiorgou, G.,
Robinson, M.K., Jakab, M., Kikinis, R., Pittman, S.D., and White, D.P. ``Anatomic and physiologic predictors of apnea
severity in morbidly obese subjects.'' Sleep 2:150155, 2003 (hereafter referred to as the ``Sleep paper''); and in a preliminary abstract reporting on this work.
Specifically, PHS found that for the data reported in the Sleep paper, the Respondent:
Changed/falsified roughly half of the physiologic data Fabricated roughly 20% of the anatomic data that were supposedly obtained from Computed Tomography (CT) images Changed/falsified 50 to 80 percent of the other anatomic data
Changed/falsified roughly 40 to 50 percent of the sleep data so that those data would better conform to his hypothesis.
Respondent also published some of the falsified and fabricated data in an abstract in Sleep 24, Abstract SupplementA7, 2001.
Goodbye, scale. Hello, health. A grassroots movement helps women gain health and self-esteem by losing their obsession with weight. apa.org
AAPR Blasts United Airlines Decision to Discriminate Against People
Association for Airline Passenger Rights (AAPR), NAAFA news
United Airlines Discriminates Oakland, CA - NAAFA, a civil rights organization working to end discrimination
against people of size strongly urges United Airlines to reconsider their new
discriminatory policy of charging passengers of size for two seats. NAAFA news release
AUDIO Thinness and Salvation by Sarah Yahm. thirdcostfestival.org. The talented Sarah Yahm, who did a radio documentary for her master's degree in social documentation at UC Santa Cruz. Her piece got picked up on a website that's a big deal in radio land.
No Shortage of Diet Books By Brenda Oelbaum imow.org
Difference in fat storage may explain lower rate of liver disease in African-Americans eurekalert.org
FTC To Require Advertisers Using Testimonials To Show Typical Results consumerists.com
Punishing us for that packet of Maltesers spiked-online
Hydroxycut hepatotoxicity: A case series and review of liver toxicity from herbal weight loss supplements
AED Guildings for Childhoold Obesity Prevention Programs Sigrún Daníelsdóttir, Cand.Psych., Deb Burgard, Ph.D., & Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, M.D. Academy For Eating Disorders
PDF Gil Hedley PHD How I Fell in Love
with Fat Ignore the cover of this document featuring Dr Oz and scroll through it to read an article by Gil Hedley. The pdf is modified to only contain the cover and Gil's article.
PDF Researchers find food-free route to obesity Science Daily
Study Shows Benefits Of Hormone Found In Fat Tissue science daily
ADVICE: Four Fat Myths about Obesity and Cancer opposingviews.com
Separating fat from fiction on true extent of our 'obesity crisis' Independent.ie
Does my butt look fat? Well, it is. And its OK to say it, because after decades of agonizing over my weight, I've finally realized that the F-word isn't dirty. By Kate Harding
Weight Bias The Need for Public Policy WeightBiasPolicyRuddReport.pdf yaleruddcenter.org
Problems Tied to Obesity Also Seem to Affect Sleep Studies find three separate links with sleep apnea health usnews.com
Nighttime Breathing Disorder Effects Are Independent of Obesity medpage today
Acceptance no matter the size The Lantern
Rising childhood obesity a myth: study abc.new.au Save your sanity and avoid reading the comments.
PDF Size Doesn't Matter Samme Chittum.
A note from the author: Please take a look and consider writing a letter to the editor in response to this empowering story so that the dialogue continues.
Pass it around and encourage others to do the same.
Send the letters to jackie.krentzman AT comcast.net.
This file downloads from my box.net account. If you experience problems let me know and I can email it to you or post it in another location.
The health benefits of a well-developed derriere may be good news to ears of many women DailyMail
Obesity has minimal impact on ovarian cancer survival News Medical Net
Obese have right to 2 airline seats --Canada court reuters
Fat So Funny mooreroom moore toons
Weight fixation sends unhealthy messages Massey University
Obesity a research journal Volume 16, Issue S2 November 2008 Just came out with a special supplement which presents a series of articles examining the nature and extent of weight bias, as well as its negative impact on obese adults and youth. (Free PDF and full text articles.)
Love Your Body Day Now Foundation Oct 15, 2008
Reflections Body Image Program bodyimageprogram.org
Sammy Sumo wins silver at worldgoldcoast.com.au
Research casts doubt on obesity epidemic ABC News
The Obesity Panic Industrial Complex on the march in .... Alabama? SignOnSanDiego.com
fat & happy (what is wrong with wellness programs) 8 hours & a lunch
NAAFA’s Response to Alabama NAAFA on myspace
Pollution can make you fat, study claims Independent.co.uk
You don't have to be thin to be healthy
What Andrew Lansley doesn't seem to realise is that fatness is a physical characteristic, not a disease
Marianne Kirby (The Rotund). guardian.co.uk
Consumer Group Claims CDC Overstates Obesity Costs usgovinfo.com
Substantia Jones's response to the article below (Better to be fat and fit than skinny and unfit). The New York Times (PDF)
Better to be fat and fit than skinny and unfit The New York Times (PDF)
The miracle weight loss that isn’t
Risks of gastric-bypass surgery are often underplayed, some experts say MSNBC
The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease Peter Muennig. BMC Public Health
Overweight workers as effective as thin ones, researchers find Jewish World View
Fat advocates say Ohio anti-obesity ads demean children The Columbus Dispatch
Anti Childhood Obesity Billboards Kick Up Debate WCPO ABC Channel 9
For Health, Body Size Can Be Misleading The New York Times
Rethinking Diets, Weight Loss and Health The New York Times
Obesity Study Looks Thin The Wall Street Journal
Flawed Logic in Obesity Forecast The New York Times
Half of overweight adults may be heart-healthy SFGate.
Obesity seen protective in cases of heart failure Reuters
All About Eve West End Word
Debunking Obese Stereotypes PsychCentral
Dieting Makes You Fat Geoffrey Cannon explains in his book Dieting Makes You Fat. Alternet
Fat-EThe new Pixar movie goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse. Slate
Film takes fat pride to the wall smh.com.au
Big Is In - Ad Campaign Magimix XL. designboom
Will HBO prove that Fat Sells? TV Squad
Is Fat the New Black? Leave some comments.
Opinion L.A Los Angeles Times
Should doctors lecture patients about their weight? Well - Tara Parker-Pope The New York Times.
Diets? Don't bother TimesOnline
As Mama Used to Say, Don't Laugh at Fat People Wynfred Russel. Mshale The African Community Newspaper
Obesity may offer some protection after stenting Reuters.
Eating Habits Not Sole Cause of Thinness or Obesity Washington Post
Obesity helps mice fend off malaria
New Scientist
Thinness vs. obesity not directly linked to eating habits, study suggests e! Science News
Even a thin person can get diabetes Mens Health MSNBC
Govt inflating childhood obesity figures: Nelson ABC news AU
Sugar intake not associated with obesity - survey stuff.co.nz
Obesity Experts Aghast By Wii Fit Wired
Obese people have an advantage when it comes to surviving illness Canada.com Global National
No Diet Day Vue Weekly
Physical Activity, Healthy Eating And BMI Not Linked In Older Teens Science Daily
Ariane Lopez-Huici’s exhibition ArtCritial.com.
Could Changing The Bacteria In Your Digestive System Be An Obesity Treatment? Science Daily
Successful plus size model Velvet D´Amour gives her thoughts on the modeling industry GM.TV via Unapologetically Fat
Research debunks health value of guzzling water Reuters.
Researchers find six more diabetes genes: study Reuters.
Seven hours of sleep will stop weight gain, say researchers Reuters.
Sprawling neighborhoods not linked to obesity, study finds Reuters.
Overweight Kids Have Fewer Cavities New York Times. Just an eye roll warning, most of the posters in the comment section of this article are idiots. Sandy at JFS unravels the "confusion" these researchers seem to have.
Anne Griephenburg, Deb Malkin and Glenn Marla at the Brooklyn Flea. Just let the story play they are the last section. NY Times (LINK NOW FIXED)
Increasing Obesity Requires New Ambulance Equipment The New York Times. There have always been fat people who needed this equipment. What ever they want to "blame" it on I am glad they are getting equipment to handle large people.
Body Mass Index and Poststroke Mortality Poststroke mortality is inversely related to BMI: overweight and obese stroke patients have a lower poststroke mortality rate than normal-weight and underweight patients. Karger.com
Study: Teasing adds to weight problems USA Today
VIDEO Woman with a million dollar image Reuters
A sister in FAT in the news. complete with video Click On Detroit
Genetics and Obesity Posted by dlende at Neuroanthropology Check out Fatfu's kick ass response in the comments.
PRAIRIE VOICES: Fit and fat GrandForksHerald.com
First ever size 16 girl reaches Miss England final Daily mail
Fat and happy San Diego City Beat
Obesity Study Sheds Light On How Genetics Affect Risk And Onset Of Common Diseases Science Daily
Genes May Determine Obesity After Weight Surgery Researchers study factors in success of bariatric procedure US News World Report
Obesity Associated With Clear Changes In Gene-networks And Dysfunction Of Mitochondria Science Daily
Spotlight: A lens into multimedia Filmmaker develops new literacies for students. Sniplet: Looking through Julie Wyman’s lens, you wonder how Olympic medalist Cheryl Haworth, at 5-foot-9 and 300 pounds, is one of the world’s premier athletes. And then you realize that the weight is to her advantage.
Hold it. Fat is unhealthy. Fat is supposed to be bad. How can this be?
Wyman is hoping for just that reaction when people see her new documentary sometime next year. As an artist devoted to new insights into the human condition, Wyman is using video to change how people think about body weight and health.
New Book Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood (Paperback)
by Anna Kirkland (Author). Description from Anna: It’s called Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood, and it explores the pre-existing terrain in the law for developing fat rights claims, both critically and hopefully. It’s an academic book but I’ve been told it’s clearly written (I tried very hard, anyway) and it explicitly addresses questions that I mean to be helpful, like how to make the best arguments for fat rights given the languages law supplies.
The Obesity Police Are Coming Thomas A Bowden
Policing Johnnys Diet psychology today
Daniel Engber: Shut up about the cost of obesity The Dallas Morning News
Analyzing effect of obesity on ICU patients UB University at Buffalo Reporter
When it comes to prevention: First Do No Harm via Sandy Szwarc at junkfood science
Debate about fatness increases health risks Kathy J. Kater,Psychotherapist, Specialist in Promotion of Body Image, Eating, Fitness and Weight
Look at all causes of childhood obesity, APH dietitian says
Mind Over Matter: SH2B1 In The Brain Regulates Obesity
Adult-Onset Obesity Seen In Mice When Gene Disrupted
Adult-onset obesity seen in mice when gene ubiquitin disrupted
Identification and Replication of a Novel Obesity Locus on Chromosome 1q24 in Isolated Populations of Cilento
Can Bacteria Make You Fat?
I smell a rat
Abolish the Fat Tax!It's time to shut up about "the cost of obesity".
VIDEO Kimberly Brittingham on Today - Fat is contagious book cover
Nature tops nurture in childhood obesity: study
Obesity may be largely genetic
Fat people cheaper to treat, study says
Feeling fat may be worse for you than being fat
Lucinda Breeding: Fat and Happy online?
Let´s call a ceasefire in the ´war on obesity´
Weighty Assumptions
Dieting Does Not Work, Researchers Report
In the Fatosphere, Big Is in, or at Least Accepted
Witt student to be featured on MTV show She has become a fat activist and created the Body Beautiful Project that promotes size acceptance.
Pure Weight Loss aka L.A. Weight Loss Goes belly up! Now if the rest would just follow! Check out Unapologetically Fat and Junkfood Science for more info
Love your fat self
Barbara Altman Bruno, Ph.D.´s letter to the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry has been published in the January 2008 issue in response to the May 2007 AJP editorial by Volkow & O´Brien proposing that "obesity" be included as a "brain disorder" in DSM-IV.
Shame on US
When fatness becomes madness
Dont fall for the big fat lie when proof of the padding is thin
Finding the Fit in Fat New Study Shows It´s Fitness Not Fat That Matters Most
Why being fat doesnt matter if youre fit
Exercise Alone Reduces Insulin Resistance in Obese Children Independently of Changes in Body Composition
The lovely Velvet D´Amour Obesity series part IV size acceptance in FranceTranscript with pictures,
Or listen here
Who´s Afraid Of Fat
170kg man wins court battle with airline
The Dangers of Competitive Dieting
Fat Chances is overweight the new healthy?
Curvy mothers have brainier kids
Weighing in Local bloggers look forward to a future of fat acceptance.
Nightclub opens with plussized crowd in mind
Fat Pride World Wide - The growing movement for avoirdupois acceptance
Obesity ´epidemic´ Who are you calling fat
New nerves grown from fat cells Lets hear it for the fat
Brain System Serves as Remote Control for Fat Metabolism
An INTERVIEW with Dr. Claude Bouchard
What Kevin Trudeau doesn´t want you to know
FTC goes after star of weight-loss infomercial TEXT VERSION
For the Overweight Bad Advice by the Spoonful
Interview with Linda Bacon on weight and health
More ups than downs for yo-yo dieters
Genes Take Charge and Diets Fall by the Wayside Was at NY Times now is offered as text file.
Set Point
Obesity epidemic an illusion, experts say
All Politics is Loco Size matters
A list of articles at Spiked
Are There Good Foods and Bad Foods TEXT VERSION
Soda Diabetes Linked by Scientific Misconduct
The Lockup diet - Campos
Obesity Obsession - Steven Milloy
Response to Obesity Study Published in New England Journal of Medicine
One Big Fat Lie
Non-dieters more successful at boosting health than dieters study finds
Bottom line on obesity
Dr Dean
Fattened Statistics
Is logic the latest victim of ´obesity epidemic´
The damage done by a culture of fat loathing
Fat guys kick ass
I´m obese, you´re obese Steven A. Shaw
The Empire of Alarmists Strike Back Text Version
A diet of hysteria
Marilyn Wann
Marilyn did an hour-long interview on local CBS radio last night. Click on the link for the time period from 9PM to 10PM. The discussion of United Airlines starts just before the 8-minute point in that hour and continues through to the end of the hour. KGO news talk AM 819 kgoradio.com
Flap Over "Fat Fliers" with video. CBS News
TM11: Fat Activism goes BIG
By bridging performance and academia these Bay Area activists are bringing attention to fat bodies and then asking, so? But their serious ambitions aren’t without a certain flare for fun and fashion.
Kelly Cochran, a young college activist, rewrites her beliefs about what it means to be a fat dancer by joining the PHAT FLY GIRLS. Long-standing activist, Marilyn Wann, takes to the streets with her handmade YAY SCALES that beg the question, aren’t we all a little bit fabulous? Sondra Solovay takes a more scholarly approach as a lawyer/teacher/writer behind the forthcoming FAT STUDIES READER. The Reader promises to bring the world of fat activism and fat academia together through a varied collection of writings. The assumption is that fat is a civil rights issue and an area of study no different from race, gender and queer studies.
www.bigmoves.org
www.fatso.com
1,000 Fat Cranes Project Marilyn Wann. 1,000 Fat Cranes is a response to the Japanese government's decision to measure everyone's waist.
1,000 Fat Cranes asks the Japanese government: Please end the war on waistlines...please make peace with people of all sizes.
Positively Fat Marilyn Wann on radio netherlands
Marilyn Wann To Appear at Abundia Retreat for Plus-Size Women MarketWatch.com
Japanese Employers Face Fines for Employing Fat People BBWCupid.com. With linkage to Marilyn Wann's 1000 fat cranes project
Fat-is-beautiful activist Marilyn Wann protests Japan's thinness law Marilyn Wann. sfweekly.com
Episode 1: The Queer Fat Femme In the first episode of FemmeCast: women explain their fat femme identity, Tara on spring fatshion, Kelli Dunham is not a girly-girl, Rachael on sex and Craigslist, Naima on sexy sci-fi, a featured interview with fat activist Marilyn Wann, and much much more!
Obesity Discrimination from whptv Marilyn Wann and there is a video too.
Fat rebel to speak at York College Marilyn Wann is working to make height and weight discrimination illegal.
Fat rebel to speak at York College - Marilyn Wann
Marilyn Wann - WHP News Story and video.
Full on with Lenard Nimoy, an interview by Marilyn Wann
Does God want you to be slim? Watch Marylin Wann´s response. CNN Video
FAT!SO? : Because You Don´t Have to Apologize for Your Size (Paperback)
TCS Daily
MyPyramid Scheme
Cognitive Disconnect
Bon Appetit
Whoppers and the End of an Epidemic
Big Fat Mistake
Please Pass The Cake
Hey, Feds, Wait a minute...
On Obesity, What the Researchers Didn´t Find
Loopy Links
It´s the fitness stupid
Health Fascism
Fat Cats
Medical "Truths"
Standard Deviance
Obesity Hum-Bug
The Fat Lady Ain´t Singing Yet
Checking the Obesity Math
Some rare good news on the obesity front
Doing It for the Children
Junk Taxes
Children and the fat police
Fat Kids, Fact, Fiction and Fear part 1
Fat Kids, Fact, Fiction and Fear part 2
Medicalizing and Moralizing Matters of Fashion
You Can Relax About Food and Eat What You Want
Fat, Flabby and Forgetful?
The Mad Fatter
They Don´t Embarrass Easily
Only the plump die young?
Food nannies hawk the hawkeye state
Nonsense for the Diet Season
The Lowdown on Sweet
The Emperor´s New Crisis
Food Fights
Nanny, What´s for Dinner?
Pseudoscience and Globesity
Shape Up, America
Getting Exercised About Exercise
Fat and Frightened
Are you what you eat?
Food Phobic Nation
The Truth About Obesity
The Skinny On Fat
The Diet Problem
Dying to be thin
The war on fats casualties
To Your Health
Where´s the Epidemic
Ideal-isms
To Do List
A simple plan
A Matter Of Health
Books
Fat Studies in the UK
is inspired by the first British UK Fat Studies seminar held in York in May 2008. The seminar helped bring together academics, health practitioners, activists and artists to discuss how contemporary UK culture represents, attempts to control and demonises fat, and to share and generate ways of countering these ideas on many fronts. FSUK contains articles, cartoons, personal reflection and reports of activism that offer a variety of ways to understand and respond to mainstream perspectives on fat, as well as stirring and suggestive calls to action in the classroom and in the gym, on the page and on the streets, in the home and in clothes shops.
Fat Studies in the UK is designed to appeal to a wide audience, including practitioners, fat activists, students and academics in the fields of health and medicine, sociology, and media and cultural studies, and anyone who is concerned with the ideas perpetrated in the current 'obesity epidemic' by government, health bodies, and mainstream media.
You can order it from Raw Nerve, Alternative Bookshop Online, Amazon or from any good bookshop on or offline.
Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society (Paperback) by Kathy Barron (Author), Anne S. Kaplan (Author), Corinna Makris (Author), Lesleigh J. Owen (Author), Frannie Zellman (Author, Editor.)amazon.com
FAT is a new exhibit from local artist Lisa Marie Barren
Art Building - University of New Mexico,Albuquerque New Mexico Free Admission.
FAT consists of projected moving images of subjects’ body fat manipulated to create ambiguous forms. The exhibition is on view in the John Sommers Gallery, from April 3 through April 10, 2009. The opening reception for FAT will be held on April 3, 2009, from 6 – 9 pm, at the John Sommers Gallery located in the Art Building at the University of New Mexico main campus.
Barren is interested in exposing what she feels society thinks should be eliminated or hidden in everyday life, such as one’s own body fat.
BOOK Lisa Marie Barren also has a book coming out to complement the exhibit above. You can view the first 15 pages here
Forbidden to be fat FatLand, a new novel that wraps its story around a fictitious U.S. territory of the same name, calls attention not only to the bias that is sometimes placed upon overweight people, but to the ways in which a utopia for such people would be impossible.
North Bergen author Frannie Zellman’s first published novel deals with the complexities of society and how her characters – of various sizes – deal with them. hudsonreporter.com
The Fat Man at the End of the World The fat heroes are coming! (And it's about time, too!) At the festival of the End of the World, a teenager searches for meaning in a flying slum. In the city, a young detective investigates an impossible crime. And there’s trouble brewing at ‘fat camp’, a classy weight-loss retreat for the rich and famous... Writers. Rockstars. Cops. Eight stories from new and established writers take on the stereotypes and give them a fat-positive spin. Print: $8.49,Download: $1.00
The 'Fat' Female Body (Hardcover) Samantha Murray. Exploring the rapidly increasing interest in obesity and fatness, this book engages with dominant ideas about "fatness" and analyses the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, looking at the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologizing "fat" bodies.
Also available at Macmillian
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby is available for pre-order at Amazon
Fatland by Frannie Zellman (fatthought) is available at Amazon
Health At Every Size The surprising Truth about your weight By Linda Bacon PhD is now available for purchase!
Book Review Vaught, Susan. 2008. Big Fat Manifesto. Reviewed by ya romance challange
The Obesity Myth: Why America´s Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health (Hardcover)
FAT!SO? : Because You Don´t Have to Apologize for Your Size (Paperback)
Fat Chicks Rule
The Fat Girls Guide To Life
Nothing to Lose: A Guide to Sane Living in a Larger Body (Paperback)
Bountiful Women: Large Women´s Secrets for Living the Life They Desire (Paperback)
Fat Resources
Discover Your Healthy Weight - NEW DVD! Medical experts explain how dieting ultimately leads to increased weight and health problems.
Women share their stories of self-doubt and unhealthy behaviors, and how they learned to trust and love their unique bodies.
Discover how you can improve your quality of life with this informational and inspirational DVD that is changing the lives of women across the country. thebodypositive.org
Food For Thought" Pyramids
You can view a sample of the pyramid by clicking the picture in the links right menu bar.
Fatigued by the relentless over emphasis on healthy eating for the purpose of weight loss, Laura McKibbin developed the “Food for Thought” Pyramid in a burst of creativity fueled by rage and probably a touch of sleep deprivation.
The pyramid’s holistic message and subversive tone resonated with Jon Robison, who has helped refine the pyramid and has included it in his presentations to audiences everywhere. food-for-thought-pyramid.com
HAES UK Celebrate health for everyone of all sizes!
Elizabeth Fisher is my fucking hero! I have been hoping to hear good news about the Travel Scoot from fat folks and she has not only purchased one and let us know of her travels but set up a blog at mytravelscoot so we can follow her and her travel scoot adventures!. Fat folks who have problems walking long distances (me included) keep an eye on the travel scoot so far it looks like a dream come true. Also check out her Women Of Size Class Members Try out the Travel Scoot page.
Association For Size Diversity And Health has a new website. They are also offering a $20 membership for new members for the next couple months. If you are practicing HAES consider joining.
Size Net UK for obesity, size acceptance and more
Fat Activist Network The Network for People Fighting for Fat Rights.
HAES Community Registry Health At Every Size. Linda Bacon would like to encourage you to enter the information you have on HAES-positive people and resources into the HAES Community Registry.
Health at Every Size has a new community resource site.
The Fat Experience Project Humanizing the life lived large.
Chunky Dunk PDX private pool party
HAES(Health at every size)Myths and Realities PDF - Deb Burgard
fatfacts wiki Fat Facts -- a resource for academics on fat acceptance. Currently under construction. This will be an excellent resource.
Junkfood Science
Health At Every Size
Helping without harming. Kids, Eating, Weight and Health
The assumption that as children are
getting fatter they are becoming
unhealthier is also not supported by
the latest research from England that
concluded there was "no rise in the
number of children suffering from
longstanding illnesses, which include
type II diabetes."
Fat Girl Magazine
The Body Positive
Babble a body acceptance blog has assembled a NICE list of fat acceptance blogs that you can subscribe to.
Fat studies Fat studies is an important area of academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. The fat studies group is a discussion forum for people engaged in academic work on this topic and for people who seek to create social change around weight oppression. This is not a forum for promotion of the goal of weight loss.
NAAFA recommended reading list
Health At Every Size
Big Adventures Scuba Tips for plus size women and their allies
Queen Bee Productions
Size Matters with Veronica
Notes-from-the-fatosphere
Big Girl, Big Stuff Tours
Joy Nash
MaryMc´s Fat Acceptance Stuff
Red No. 3
Largesse the network for size esteem
Fat Girl mini-zine
Big Fat Index
Big Fat Facts
Big Fat Blog
Size Wise
NAAFA National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.
Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH)
Nothing to lose Video
Love Your Body Project
Size-Acceptance.org
Fat Thin Alliance: Parents of Fat Kids offers support for parents and their larger children and teens. This is a Health at Every Size (HAES), size acceptance-oriented group
that does not discuss or endorse pursuing weight loss.
Abigail Saguy Podcast - Defining the Ideal Body
Feminist Reprise Archive
F.A.T.A.S.S PDX Fat Action Troupe Allstar Spirit Squad
Cats House of fun It really is fun. Check out her pics
Any-Body.org
Dear Fat Frannie
Love your body project
SeaFATtle Raising Consciousness By Raising Hell
A place at the table
Kelly Bliss Plus Size Yellow pages
Body Positive
First Do No Harm An excellent read.
Grand Style Womans Club
NOLOSE The National Org for Lesbians of size
FAT!SO? For people who dont apologize for their size.
Radiance Magazine The Magazine For Large Women.
More BBW Resources Page Of Misc BBW Resources.
Tolerance.org Fat...So?
Big Moves committed to increasing size diversity in the dance world.
Adios Barbie
In Fitness and in Health
International Size Acceptance Assoc.
Fat Friendly Health Professionals.
Have a good or bad experience with a doctor? Rate them here let us all know how they are with fat patients
About Face, be sure not to miss this one.
Generous City A community of size and fat acceptance.
Aspartame If you consume diet products that contain Nutrasweet read this.
Killing us for our own good, an educational video presentation.
Fat Acceptance Stuff a great site full of information.
BBW Friendly
Sizewise
Everything BBW
Fat Girl Speaks
Show me the data
Dont tell me what size I must B
Dimensions Where Big is Beautiful.
The Padded Lilies
LIPIDLEGGIN (c) 1978 F. Paul Wilson.
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